“This has been a complicated year. It began with a long, cold winter, with extremely low temperatures, compared to 2016,” said Marjan Knežević, Feravino chief oenologist. “Then springtime frost in certain locations lowered yield. However, the long, warm, dry summer compensated the problems from the first part of the year. Our older plantations have no trouble with dry periods, so even in such harvests they offer excellent sweetness parameters. Grapes are exceptionally healthy, truly excellent condition, an important precondition for another excellent wine growing year, slightly reminiscent of 2012 and promising superior wines,” claims Knežević, a veteran of Slavonian wine growing and winemaking. Amalija Lovrić, Feravino’s vineyard technologist, also considers 2017 to be better than 2016. “The drought did not create any significant problems for us,” she said. “In fact, the dry and very warm summer brought out the best from the grapes.”
It is interesting that Feravino began the harvest with Riesling, usually harvested later. But the Riesling is not a crucial variety for Feravino’s portfolio (in the past years they have been making sparkling wine from it). This winery from the slopes of Krndija recently launched redesigned labels Dika and Miraz, whose production was helped by renowned Slovenian winemaker Matjaž Lemut, owner of Tilia from Vipava. Miraz label wines are today definitely among the very top of Slavonian wine production and reflect the ambition of Feravino to impose itself on the market as a boutique producer of relatively large capacity.
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